Re: broadcom 5752 in HP dc7600U works on 2.6.13 but does not working on 2.6.16

[Con Kolivas]

On Monday 22 May 2006 20:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It appears that the 2.6.13 kernel did not bring up the machine's io-APICs,
> but 2.6.16 did.  However you are receiving eth0 interrupts on 2.6.16 so
> perhaps that's not relevant.

It looks like he's _not_ receiving eth0 interrupts if I'm not mistaken?

The lower one with apic presumably is 2.6.16


>  10:        130          XT-PIC  eth0

>  16:          0   IO-APIC-level  eth0

and this:

> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=-1 pin1=-1 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...  failed.
> ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.

looks suspiciously like a broken apic/code/workaround/whatever

I'd go with Andrew's suggestion and disable apic in your bootparameters 
(noapic and/or nolapic) and possibly in your config if it corrects it

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